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Grammatical Framework

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News

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2014-03-11: -	A company for commercial applications of GF has been founded: - Digital Grammars. -
2013-11-25: -	The default character encoding in GF grammar files will be changed - from Latin-1 to UTF-8. See - GF character encoding changes - for details. -
2013-10-18:	New resource grammar language: Estonian. - See library synopsis. -
2013-09-18:	New GF contributions repository, hosted on GitHub. -
2013-08-06:	GF 3.5 released! - Release notes. -
2013-07-26:	Started a page with RGL Documentation and Publications. -
2013-06-24:	We are now running the IRC channel `#gf` on the Freenode network. -
2013-06-19:	New resource grammar language: Maltese. - See library synopsis. -
2013-04-25:	New resource grammar language: Greek. - See library synopsis. -
2013-01-31:	GF 3.4 released! - Release notes. -
2012-12-10:	- Resource Grammar Library - coverage map, created by Tommi Nieminen. - -

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What is GF

-GF, Grammatical Framework, is a programming language for -multilingual grammar applications. It is -

a special-purpose language for grammars, like - YACC, - Bison, - Happy, - BNFC, - but not restricted to programming languages -
a functional programming language, like - Haskell, - Lisp, - OCaml, - SML, - Scheme, - but specialized to grammar writing -
a development platform for natural language grammars, like - LKB, - XLE, - Regulus, - but based on functional programming and type theory -
a categorial grammar formalism, like - ACG, - CCG, - but specialized for multilingual grammars, -
a logical framework, like - Agda, - Coq, - Isabelle, - but equipped with concrete syntax in addition to logic -
a platform for machine translation, like - Moses, - Apertium, - but based on deep structural analysis (and usually applied for - limited fragments of language). -

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-Don't worry if you don't know most of the references above - but if you do know at -least one, it may help you to get a first idea of what GF is. -

Applications

-GF can be used for building -

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Availability

-GF is open-source, licensed under GPL (the program) and -LGPL and BSD (the libraries). It -is available for -

Linux -
Mac OS X -
Windows -
Android mobile platform (via Java; runtime) -
via compilation to JavaScript, almost any platform that has a web browser (runtime) -

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Projects

-GF was first created in 1998 at -Xerox Research Centre Europe, -Grenoble, in the project -Multilingual Document Authoring. At Xerox, it was used for prototypes including -a restaurant phrase book, -a database query system, -a formalization of an alarm system instructions with translations to 5 languages, and -an authoring system for medical drug descriptions. -

-Later projects using GF and involving third parties include, in chronological order, -

GF-Alfa: - natural language interface to formal proofs -
Efficient: - authoring tool for business models. -
GF-KeY: - authoring and translation of software specifications -
TALK: - multilingual and multimodal spoken dialogue systems -
WebALT: - multilingual generation of mathematical exercises (commercial project) -
SALDO: - Swedish morphological dictionary based on rules developed for GF and - Functional Morphology -
MOLTO: - multilingual online translation -
REMU: - reliable multilingual digital communication. -

-Here is a talk -about GF at XRCE, -14 years later. - -

-Academically, GF has been used in at least ten PhD theses and resulted -in more than a hundred -scientific publications (see GF publication list). -

Programming in GF

-GF is easy to learn by following the tutorial. -You can write your first translator in 15 minutes. -

-GF has an interactive command interpreter, as well as a batch compiler. -Grammars can be compiled to parser and translator code in many different -formats. These components can then be embedded in applications written -in other programming languages. The formats currently supported are: -

Haskell -
Java, in particular the Android platform -
JavaScript -
Speech recognition: HTK/ATK, Nuance, JSGF -

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-The GF programming language is high-level and advanced, featuring -

static type checking -
higher-order functions -
dependent types -
pattern matching with data constructors and regular expressions -
module system with multiple inheritance and parametrized modules -

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Getting help

-If you need some help with GF, the first places to start are the Tutorial and Reference pages. -The printed book contains all the material in the tutorial and some extra bits, and is the recommended reference for GF. -

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-We run the IRC channel #gf on the Freenode network, where you are welcome to look for help with small questions or just start a general discussion. -IRC logs (in raw format) are available here. -If you have a larger question which the community may benefit from, we recommend you ask it on the mailing list. -

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Libraries

-Libraries are at the heart of modern software engineering. In natural language -applications, libraries are a way to cope with thousands of details involved in -syntax, lexicon, and inflection. The -GF resource grammar library has -support for an increasing number of languages, currently including -

Afrikaans -
Amharic (partial) -
Arabic (partial) -
Bulgarian -
Catalan -
Chinese -
Danish -
Dutch -
English -
Estonian -
Finnish -
French -
German -
Greek -
Hebrew (fragments) -
Hindi -
Interlingua -
Japanese -
Italian -
Latin (fragments) -
Latvian -
Maltese -
Nepali -
Norwegian bokmål -
Persian -
Polish -
Punjabi -
Romanian -
Russian -
Sindhi -
Spanish -
Swahili (fragments) -
Swedish -
Thai -
Turkish (fragments) -
Urdu -

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-Adding a language to the resource library takes 3 to 9 -months - contributions -are welcome! You can start with the resource grammarian's tutorial. - - - - - - -- cgit v1.2.3